B Quotes
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“Beauty is a relic of Eden - a remnant of what is good. It comes from a deeper realm. It trickles into our lives as water from a crack in a dam, and what lies on the other side of that dam fills us with wonder and fear. Glory lies on the other side. And we were made for glory.”
Source: Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
“Beauty is a sacrifice. -Me
Baby, I INVENTED scrawny! -Leo Valdez
I will NEVER leave you or forsake you. -God
No one can make you feel inferior, unless you consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Be careful, Seaweed Brain. -Annabeth Chase”
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
“Beauty is a social necessity.”
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)
“Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”
Source: The Prophet
“Beauty is a thing severe and unapproachable, never to be worn by a languid lover.”
“Beauty is a Treasure while Style is a Fortune”
“Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.”
“Beauty is a unique predator: we crave to become its prey.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.”
“Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness”
“Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.”
“Beauty is a way of mourning the dead.”
“Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”
Source: The Hours
“Beauty is a wonderful tapestry embroidered by the many single threads woven together by the unspeakable tender hand of God.”
“Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.”
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
Source: Seriously ... I'm Kidding
“Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.”
“Beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself - avoid trying to be something you're not.”
Source: The Lost Hero
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.”
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.”
“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.”
“Beauty is akin to poison. Poison that smoothers us, intoxicates us and then slowly kills us.”
Source: Dying in Champoussin
“Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.”
“Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.”
“Beauty is all around, waiting at our doorstep, we merely need to open the door. Walk out to open to the new within me and you.
Beauty lets light in, while opening us up to love, love, love-
loving within and so without.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.”
“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.”
“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.”
“Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.”
“Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.”
“Beauty is always queen.”
“Beauty is an accidental and transient good.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.”
“Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.”
“Beauty is an attitude. There's no secret. Why are all brides beautiful? Because on their wedding day they care about how they look. There are no ugly women - only women who don't care or or don't believe they're attractive.”
“Beauty is an early riser. It needs to put on makeup.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
Source: Cakes and Ale
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.”
“Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
“Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Beauty is an expression of the inner and outer simplicity, kindness, and uniqueness of a person.”
“Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.”
“Beauty is an illusion.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality